Department News

Kyriakos Georgiou, a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Bristol, is attending Parliament to present his research on energy efficient software to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain on Monday 9 March 2015.

Intelligent Systems Lab members pick up best paper award at European conference

24-Sep-2014

At the recent European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery, Dr Meelis Kull and Prof Peter Flach received the award for best paper presented at the conference for their paper entitled Reliability Maps: A Tool to Enhance Probability Estimates and Improve Classification Accuracy. Meelis presented the paper in a plenary session to the 500+ delegates.

Congratulations to James Pallister, a PhD student in the Department, who has won the National Microelectronics Institute's Young Engineer of the Year 2014 award. James' research focuses on software-centric approaches towards energy-efficient computing. He is an excellent role model for young engineers working at the leading edge of technology and science.

What is the impact of Big Data analytics on the way people do business and its advance across public and private sectors? This question will be explored by Mike Olson, the co-founder of Cloudera, at a free University of Bristol public lecture hosted by the Intelligent Systems Laboratory.

Royal Society Open Science is an "open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer review".
Each subject area has a Subject Editor and an editorial board: the Bristol academics involved in the journal are Professor Jon Blundy FRS (Subject Editor for Earth Sciences); Professor Nigel Smart (member of the editorial board for

From hacking hardware to programming software, students from the University of Bristol's Merchant Venturers School of Engineering will be on hand to show young people how to have more fun with technology at a DigiMakers event this Saturday, 4 October.